We've booked the flights

Sounds like we have similar relationships with our Mums, I'm the same we speak all the time on the phone. Mums actually started emailing me at work, think she's getting into practice on speaking to me via email.

She keeps saying she's so excited for us and you can see it in her face she's finding it hard. And it's so hard for us not to update them with every bit of progress and how we're feeling, you almost feel you have to play your excitement down a bit.

Dont know if you've already thought about this but we're going to invest in a Webcam and Skype. Stu knows all about Skype and has it set up at the moment although I dont use it but its something like you can talk to someone for free over the internet which is quite cool?? (gawd I'm in IT and I know poop all about modern technology). I'll be using both of them a lot when we're in NZ.

Hi Amy,
Mum and I email most days several times as well as spek on the phone everyday. Dad it desperate for us to do the Skype thing but we're not sure yet. At mo looking to buy lappy on ebay and sell the desktop.
We think we have a taken for pooch no 1 and ma and pa will take pooch no 2. All a bit real now and feeling really down bout haing to let them go. Almost feel like i don't wanna go but have to think of all the reasons we're doing it and still having the dogs wont be compensation enough for still being here with all the associated hellishness. dont make it any asier tho, even tho i know that they will be in the best of homes.
I guess that all the planning, arranging, saying good byes and dealing with parents and dogs is overshadowing the excitment and thrill of it all at the mo and both feel a bit down. we have to remember why we are doing it and how fantastic it will be. dosnt help when we are getting stressy and snappy at each other mind.
anyway, enough of the essay.
bye for now. :006:

Hello,

At least you know who your pooches will be going to and you can get to see them if and when you ever come back to the UK. It is tought but it's for the best for them, we really seriously considered taking Fergus our pup across to NZ and everything they have to go through is so unfair for them.

If you're thinking of getting a lappy try the Dell website, we got a really cheap one for the same purpose as what yoou're looking at for really cheap and I know my friend got the same one about 2 months ago and it was even cheaper!

We're the same at the moment with each other getting snappy and grumpy but its just the stress and it seems its only ever one of us down in the dumps at the one time so we're having to try and pick each other up. Its so hard not snapping at times. I think its because you are both going through the same thing and trying to explain to someone else how stressed your feeling just isnt the same and they just dont understand how one minute your up the next your down kinda thing.

We're a bit stressed at the mo cos of problems with the sale of the house, solicitors and estate agents are causing us major grief as they just cant do their job right, get this they forgot to tell their legal team that the house sold on Friday and its now Tuesday!! ahhhh but anyhoo, just gotta keep focussing on August...

Try and keep your chin up, just got to pick ourselfs up and think what a fab time we'll have and great stories we'll be able to friends and family back in the UK.

Right well I think I bet you on the essay front, hope you both start feeling better...

U too. Here's to not snapping at each other as when we are there we're all we have till we start making friends. sort of, if u see what i mean... this forum is great as although friend s and family try to understand and are very excited for you its not the same as going through it and here everyone is at some point on the same journey and can support each other.

we're looing at apple macs on ebay. use pc's at work but grew up withthe ol macs.

We were trying to buy a house at the end of last year. it was a nightmare and our solicitor saidd it was the worst case she had dealt with. our mortgage advisor forged our signatures on our applications, therefore the bank got scared and didn't wanna lend to us. after much negotioating they did. then we found he had only ut us on a two year fixed rate instead of a three year and he didnt change it when we asked so we lost the interet rate. then a week before christmas our vendor died unexpectdly (quite young) then our surveyor said that the house was only worth wot we offered with ?20k work, which the vendors partner would not accept and not even knock a tenner off.

buying and selling is a complete trauma and i seiously wonder why we put ourselves through it.

sorry bout the appalling typing. very tired and fingers going gaster than brain i think. or something like that.

bye for now.